Saturday, May 3, 2014

HISTORY REPEATS. THE 21ST CENTURY UKRAINIAN CIVIL WAR PLAYED OUT IN THE 17TH CENTURY

Many have claimed the current Civil War in the Ukraine, which I called back on March 1, 2014, in 21st CENTURY CRIMEAN WAR. OH, AND SARAH PALIN IS WRONG STILL isn't a civil war at all, but rather a "proxy war" between "East" and "West" also said between the USA and Russia. In short, they argue that because outside backers exist, there can't be a civil war.There is a strong history of outside backers in the civil wars of others (see list below). Straight away, the Korean War (1950 – 1953) and the Vietnam War come to mind. Today's Ukrainian Civil war is quite reminiscent of one fought in the 1600s. Back between 1648 and 1657 a Cossack uprising in the Ukraine turned into a liberation war from Poles and Lithuanians. Zaporozhian Cossacks turned to Crimean Tatars for help in their fight against Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth armies and paramilitary forces, which today would be known as Polish tourists and Lithuanian tourists.The uprising resulted in eastern Ukraine becoming incorporated into the Tsardom of Muscovy. Also known as the Tsardom of Russia, the Tsardom was the centralized Russian state from Ivan IV's assumption of the title of Tsar in 1547 until Peter the Great's foundation of the Russian Empire in 1721.

In the Korean War, Koreans of the north fought Koreans of the south. Americans, Brits and the United Nations itself backed the southern Koreans. The Chinese and the Soviet Russians backed the northern Koreans.

In yet another showdown between West and East, Americans, Arabians, Hondurans, Iranians, Spanish, Israeli and Argentinians backed the losers while the Soviet Russians, Cubans, Bulgarians, Greeks, Mexicans and Swedes backed the communist winners.

And here we have yet another East vs West driven Civil War. This time, Americans Israelis and Taiwanese backed a military government against communists favored by Soviet Russians, Cubans, Nicaraguans, the Chinese and Bulgarians.